The Invisible Man - Wells George Herbert.pdf - Cove Systems

CHAPTER X
MR. MARVEL'S VISIT TO IPING
After the first gusty panic had spent itself
Iping became argumentative. Scepticism
suddenly reared its head--rather nervous
scepticism, not at all assured of its back, but
scepticism nevertheless. It is so much easier
not to believe in an invisible man; and those
who had actually seen him dissolve into air, or
felt the strength of his arm, could be counted
on the fingers of two hands. And of these
witnesses Mr. Wadgers was presently missing,
having retired impregnably behind the bolts
and bars of his own house, and Jaffers was
lying stunned in the parlour of the "Coach and
Horses." Great and strange ideas transcending
experience often have less effect upon men
and women than smaller, more tangible
considerations. Iping was gay with bunting,
and everybody was in gala dress. Whit
Monday had been looked forward to for a